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ERIC Number: EJ409688
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Improving Social-Environmental Studies Problem Solving through Cooperative Learning.
Ross, John A.
American Educational Research Journal, v25 n4 p573-91 Win 1988
Two field experiments were conducted to compare the effects of a cooperative learning group method to a whole-class method on acquisition of selected social-environmental studies problem-solving skills by 342 fourth graders. Both methods outperformed the control, but the cooperative strategy was less effective than was the whole-class method. (TJH)
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Comparative Analysis, Cooperative Learning, Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Group Activities, Intermediate Grades, Learning Strategies, Problem Solving, Skill Development, Social Studies, Teaching Methods
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Student Teams Achievement Divisions
Note: An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (Hamilton, Ontario, 1987).